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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntarycontribution mechanism

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperationin a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Ourapproach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relieson endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of contributors...

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Fragility of Information Cascades:An Experimental Study using Elicited Beliefs

Koessler, Frédéric; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony; Bracht, Jürgen - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory experiments.One group of low informed subjects make predictions in sequence. In a matchedpairs design, another set of high informed subjects observe the decisions of the first group andmake predictions....

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The Resolution GameA Multiple Selves Perspective

Migrow, Dimitri; Uhl, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

The notion of choice inconsistency is widely spread in the literature on behavioraleconomics. Several approaches were used to account for the observation that peoplereverse their choices over time. This paper aims to explain the formation of resolutionsregarded as internal self-binding devices....

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Relatives Versus Neighbors- An Experiment Studying Spontaneous Social Exchange

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; von Wangenheim, Georg - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

establish cooperation with non-kin. We shedlight on the issue by a voluntary social exchange experiment where related(via mutual …

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Providing negative cost public projects under a fair mechanism : an experimental analysis

Güth, Werner; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2013

projects have demonstrated that the mechanism is efficiency enhancing. Our experiment tests whether the mechanism remains …

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation, and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346014

Fairness norms can explain the emergence of specific cooperation norms in the Battle of the Prisoners Dilemma

Winter, Fabian - 2013

different shadows of the future and degrees of asymmetry and tested in a lab-experiment. Our experimental data show that game … better in describing the equilibrium selection process of emerging norms. -- coordination ; experiment ; normative conflict …

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Trustworthy by convention

Bigoni, Maria; Stefania, Bortolotti; Marco, Casari; … - 2012

Social life offers innumerable instances in which trust relations involve multiple agents. In an experiment, we study a …

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Is fairness intuitive? : an experiment accounting for the role of subjective utility differences under time pressure

Merkel, Anna; Lohse, Johannes - 2016

authors have claimed that "fairness is intuitive". In light of conﬂicting empirical evidence, we provide theoretical arguments … of the "fairness is intuitive" hypothesis. Drawing on recent applications of the Drift Diffusion Model (Krajbich et al … theoretical considerations and to retest the "fairness is intuitive" hypothesis, we analyze choices in two-person prisoner …

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